The image on this PDF Applique Page depicts a gloomy bird named Jay who is looking for something to cheer him up. Finding a single bright & beautiful flower is just what he needs to brighten up his morning. This applique page features all of the shapes needed to complete your project (such as a mug rug or mini quilt) using raw edge applique, piecing, sewing, quilting or more. There are also tips for completing the project. THIS APPLIQUE PAGE DOES NOT INCLUDE ALL OF THE CREATION STEPS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN MY FULL PATTERNS. The intent is that you purchase at least one or more of my full patterns to learn the creation process. Once you have done that, then using an applique page will be intuitive. You can alter the applique pieces to make your bird special, such as making the legs short or long, bodies large or small, beaks curved or pointy, or you can even add embroidered eyelashes, and more. This is an addictive activity that can possibly lead to the creation of a flock of birds! A really fun surprise is that this applique page includes Jay’s original story on the first page of the applique page. If you complete your project as a gift to a friend or loved one, it is great fun to include Jay’s story when you present your gift! Finished project is approximately 8.5” x 10.5”. However, you can easily adjust the block size so it can be used to create a standard size quilt block. This applique page is written in English. All templates are full size & are reversed. Trace applique pieces as shown. This listing is for the applique page only. Intermediate level of sewing, quilting, piecing, and fusible techniques are needed to complete this project. The project is designed to be sewn using a sewing machine. A walking foot is helpful when quilting the background of the block. Photos of customer projects are provided for inspiration only. No instructions are provided to make their version. Licensing & Copyright statement: All of my patterns or applique pages can be used unlimited for personal use, such as gifts. If you are a home sewer and have a cottage business where you personally make items to sell to your friends, family, at market stalls, or in your personal online store – you can purchase my patterns or applique pages for that purpose. Please limit your © 2021/2022 Rebecca J Penniston/RazBeca Birds, items to no more than three (3) items at one time. This means that you can have no more than a total of three (3) © 2021/2022 Rebecca J Penniston RazBeca’s Birds items listed in your online store or for sale at your market stall at any one time. Once those three items have sold you can, of course, make another three. • It is not okay to purchase one pattern or applique page to share at a craft or quilting group, or sewing class/bee. • Each sewer must purchase a pattern or applique page for themselves. • Please be fair and understand that designing and writing is the way I make my living. No permission is given for commercial mass-production.

First class packages are taking up to three weeks to be delivered in the US. This is beyond our control. If you can't wait that long for your patterns to arrive, consider an upgrade to Priority Mail. COUPON! Save $2 off 2 patterns with TWOPATTERNS2 or Save $4 off 3 patterns with THREEPATTERNS4 at checkout. MOD FISH Quilt Pattern - Colourwerx - Colorful Contemporary Modern - Wonky Strip Piecing Easy Appliqué Shapes Fish School. “Mod Fish” Quilt Pattern By Linda & Carl Sullivan for Colourwerx PATTERN ONLY QUILT SIZE: 36” x 47” Liberated curvy stitching, wonky strip piecing and large easy to fuse machine appliqué shapes make this cool school of ModFish fun to stitch! No special rulers needed for the curved or wonky piecing and the pattern includes all the full size appliqué shapes as well as detailed directions and full color diagrams. *Wonky strip piecing and easy appliqué shapes make this cool school of Mod Fish fun to stitch. *Detailed directions and full color diagrams for creative curvy background - no special rulers needed! *Full size appliqué shapes included.

The Wonky House Block Swap Ended March 1st. We had four groups of twelve and the houses were amazing. Here are the ones I made. Here is what I received!!! Our next swap is due May 1st, Wonky Trees. There is plenty of time for you to join. Click on the house on the left for details. I decided to make 8 colored trees. I also made one for myself. My nod to Dr. Seuss, who I just love! BUT after seeing the Lorax last night (great movie) I soooo need to make some pink and purple trees!! Hmmm, I wonder if I can draw them? Happy Sewing!

Wonky Improv Birds Quilted Coasters

After much fiddling with my new EQ7 software, I finally have templates for my Wonky House block that are ready to share and download! You may remember this block from my massive Stash Bee block catch up from last month. Pauline requested wonky houses for her month back in February and I definitely hesitated as I've mentioned before that I don't do wonky very well. A lightbulb went off and I thought to design a paper piecing "wonky" pattern with EQ7. This way I could have my cake and eat it too...the block would be perfectly wonky...with the bonus of crisp template lines to follow along with. I'm not going to share a tutorial for paper piecing in general, as there are several awesome ones out there in blog land, and why reinvent the wheel. If you have never paper pieced before, or need a refresher, check out Faith of Fresh Lemon's Quilts Paper Piecing Tutorial her's is my favorite! The Wonky House Paper Piecing Templates can be found here. Block size is 12.5" unfinished, or 12" finished. Please download the file to your computer before printing the templates, as I've found the block sizing to be off when printing directly from Google documents. Cut out all template pieces and paper piece using the numbered sections on each template. Once all your sections are pieced, use the above diagram to assemble your block. Please note sections A, H and I are single fabric sections. Due to the size constrictions of fitting the template pieces onto standard 8.5" x 11" paper for printing, this was the only option. Also, please note that the above finished block is a mirror image (read: backward) of the template pieces. Once your block is pieced, admire your work! Also be sure to add it to the SewCraftyJess Flickr group, as I'd love to see your interpretation! If you are interested in the ramblings of my EQ7 experiences so far, check out the review below: I had been in the market for quilt design software for some time now, and had deliberated between several options. I have used the TouchDraw app for my iPad thus far for quilt patterns and tutorial illustrations, which has worked great, but I really wanted something to help design paper piecing templates. I checked out jumping in with Adobe Illustrator, but ultimately thought that might be a little more than I really needed (and pricier too!), as well as checked out a few online quilt design options including Thread Bias' Quilt Design Tool, but decided that I wanted something that would be downloaded to my computer and not require a monthly subscription fee. After ruling out these options, I settled on Electric Quilt's EQ7. After receiving my software in the mail (I ordered from Fat Quarter Shop) I spent quite a bit of time reviewing the users manual for EQ7, learning the ins and outs of the software, as well as watching the demo videos and tips that are built right into the software. I also purchased the book EQ With Me: Pieced Drawing, as I was still a little unsure of the best way to use the software to design blocks that I had in mind. I can't say enough good things about this book. It takes each of the modes available in the EQ7 software and teaches you how to use them via a multitude of step by step tutorials (lessons) detailing how to construct various blocks of assorted difficulty. If I had known about this book from the beginning, I would have skipped the users manual and dove right into the lessons, as I'm a hands-on learner. So far, there hasn't been a quilt block I've come up with that EQ7 couldn't design, or a quilt layout that didn't easily come together. I'm also a huge fan of the ability to import fabric swatches to get an actual image of what a quilt will look like with certain fabrics. As for the cons, my main dislike is the lack of instruction within the software and users manual itself for using each function to actually construct quilt blocks. Maybe its just me, but I find its one thing to understand how a tool works and another to apply that tool in a string of 9 other tools to make a finished product. Now as mentioned before, the EQ With Me book completely did this for me, but after spending all that money on the software, its understandable to not want to spend another $30 on a book to learn how to use the software. One of the main reasons I wanted this software was to design paper piecing templates not only for myself, but to share with all you lovely readers. While EQ7 makes the designing aspect of this incredibly easy (once getting the hang of things), it doesn't make the sharing part easy at all. I found (and confirmed) that there is no way to save the resulting pages of paper piecing templates as an image document or PDF in the software. While this is no big deal if only making templates for yourself, but it poses a huge problem if planning on sharing the templates as a download with others. There is a way around this, I used Shape Moth's suggestion of installing a free PDF creator (I downloaded this one for free and it works like a charm) that lists itself among your printer options, so instead of printing the final copy of paper piecing templates via a printer, you can "print" them by selecting the PDF creator from the drop down printer selector which then results in PDF pages to save to your computer that are ready to download, instead of printed pages. Let me make myself clear, most of my gripes I have have nothing to do with the actual function of how the software works to design quilts and quilt blocks, but instead are with the little extras that would help with the finishing stages of publishing and sharing paper piecing templates. Perhaps this is where I should have considered Adobe Illustrator (and its heftier price tag) for publishing purposes, but in case you perhaps are considering EQ7 for the same reasons, I thought I'd share my experiences. On the whole, I can't say enough good things about this software and its ease of use, and only a minuscule amount of gripes, which for the most part I have been able to navigate around. I definitely give it a two thumbs up, which if I had to purchase again, would do so in a heartbeat! Disclaimer: I have not been paid in any way for this review. It is simply an unbiased review of my thoughts and impressions to share with others who may be in the market for quilt design software.

This quilt is a collaboration of blocks from a swap I was in. All blocks except one were made by quilting friends from my Craftser.org I had asked everyone to make 12 1/2 in. wonky house blocks made from bright fabrics with white backgrounds so they would all be cohesive. I think it turned out great. Each one of them is absolutely perfect. I can't decide on a favorite. I think it is which ever one I am focused on at the moment. My question is what is the best way to quilt this. Any ideas?

Disclaimer: The products in this post were given to me at no cost by Island Batik and Quilty Box. Won't you be my neighbor? This is the quilt I made for the December Island Batik Ambassadors challenge. This month's challenge was Whimsical and Wonky. This was a tough one for me. I like to be playful with colors and fabric, but most of my designs have a lot of structure. My quilt features Island Batik fabrics from the Paisley Dot collection and Check it Out, plus a few scraps from my stash. I used Check it out for the sky and the backing, too. Here's a closer look at the center house block. I used Carrie Bloomston's Wonky Little Houses pattern from the October 2018 Quilty Box. Her pattern is super simple, featuring the three houses I made. She encourages you to add other elements to your quilt to personalize it. I added lace trim and button doorknobs to each house. At this point, I felt like the brightly colored wonky houses looked a lot like a child's drawing. So I created a fun tree in the same style and put a sunny yellow circle up in the sky to be the sun, moon, or a planet ~ use your imagination. I used Hobbs Heirloom Cotton Batting and Aurifil threads in matching colors to quilt my street scene. It looks cute on my front porch glider. When the weather is nice, I do a lot of my hand sewing here. Here is a closer look at the quilting. I quilted straight lines into the houses to look like wood siding. I did some fun echo quilting around the sun and the tree in the sky. Everything was quilted with my walking foot. The yellow Paisley Dot fabric makes a wonderful sun (or moon, or planet)! I cut 10" strips of turquoise and aqua green Paisley Dot fabrics and randomly sewed them together to make the binding. I really love the way this quilt turned out. It's adorable! I'm not sure what I am going to do with this quilt, but it would make a fun children's play mat. Imagination...I think a lot of stories could start out with this sweet collection of homes. 2018 has been a fabulous year as an Island Batik Ambassador - I've loved every minute of it! I have one more project to sew for the big year ending blog hop. My hop day is January 21st. I'd better get sewing! The hop starts soon. Be on the lookout for a bevy of inspiration with the Island Batik Ambassadors, coming your way! Be Creative ~ Sew Something Beautiful Today! Jennifer Thomas Click here to visit the Curlicue Creations shop! Subscribe to the Curlicue Creations Newsletter * indicates required Email Address * This is an affiliate advertisement. Clicking on this link and making a purchase may result in my receiving a commission.

I have been back at the sewing machine, hurray! At the start of the New Year, when I thought about what I wanted to be making, one of my priorities was a few more mini quilts. I've been waiting to hang them all up together till I got to a point where I felt that I had a large enough, and well balanced enough, collection to work together. And I'd like to get to that point soon now! I remember that I mentioned when I made my last mini quilt (a kite) that one of the things I liked about it was that it wasn't a standard square/oblong mini quilt shape. And this was something that I decided at the start of the New Year that I'd like to explore further, partly for fun and partly to try and give my Mini Quilt 'wall-to-be' more balance and variety. I decided I wanted to cover a few different design elements somewhere within my next few mini quilts - make one a bit taller and thinner, one with a radically different shape, one with some kind of 3D element and one upside down! And I'm very happy I seem to have covered 3 of those bases with this bat! As soon as I got to the 'upside down' idea, the thought of a bat popped into my head. I love bats anyway, seeing them swooping around at dusk in the Summer is always a treat, especially when we're swimming in the river late, as we often do, and they sweep low over our heads catching juicy insects that gather together and buzz just above the water. And their shape does, I think, lend itself quite well to patchwork. I started out drawing a basic shape, and then building up the patchwork to fit. Did you know bats are the only flying mammal, and there are over 1000 different varieties? More than 250 species have been identified as endangered, vulnerable or "near threatened." If I hadn't been keen to get back to some machine sewing I think I might have been tempted to paper piece the wings, but as it was I managed fine by machine. Bulmer's fruit bat is the world's most endangered bat. It is only found in one cave in Papua New Guinea.There are only around 160 individuals left in this colony. I drew my basic shape again on a scrap piece of wool... A fungus that causes a disease called white-nose syndrome has devastated bats in North America. And kept it small enough so my patchwork wings could just fold over at the edges... Flying foxes (genus Pteropus) are the largest bats. Some species have wingspans of 5 to 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 meters).The smallest bat is the bumblebee bat, it grows to only about 1.25 inches long (3 cm) and weighs about 2 grams (0.07 ounces). That's the end of my bat facts but I used some glue basting spray to fold those wings over! Then laid it out on another, nice and coordinating piece of wool, with a green, cotton body piece as well... Wool was great so it wouldn't fray around the edges. Then sewed a tight zigzag all around the patchwork, including the body piece, cut it out with a very narrow, wool border and quilted it... I added a little star applique in my patterned fabric to balance it out a bit too. My plan was always to be able to hang my bat from his claws. I have no idea whether there might be lots better ideas out there on how to make hanging bat claws, but I decided to use craft wire... I mummified them with a thin strip of fabric, using a little drop of glue here and there to secure it... And then wrapped a thin strip of my green fabric around that, again using a drop of glue here and there and also a few stitches with this outer layer too. I also wanted bat 'arms' for the wings, and used a fluffy pipe cleaner for this (I did think about a pipe cleaner for the hanging claws, but wasn't sure it would have been quite firm and strong enough). Because it was very fluffy and padded already I just skipped straight to covering it with my thin green strip, starting in the middle and winding out in both directions seemed to work well. You can see here I've also made a top layer for the body - just very slightly larger than the original body section, and I zigzagged this cotton shape onto a piece of the wool and then cut it out with a very narrow border of wool again. I sewed on my words (all my mini quilts have a quote or words of some sort on them) and quilted it - just to add a bit more strength and detail. He has 2 button eyes sewn on too - and if you're wondering I did sew them on a little crooked on purpose, for added quirkiness! At this point I decided my 'arms' needed fingers at the end of them - did you know bats have 4 fingers and a thumb?! (Researching that is what set me off on the bat facts generally!) Fingers were sewn on by machine in a small zigzag stitch. Now I was ready to start putting it together. I just hand sewed the arms and the claws to the body. I also hand sewed the ends of those arms to my fingers in the photo above. Then padded the body area with some scraps of soft fleece. And then hand stitched the outer body all the way round, poking a bit more stuffing in as I went round if I felt it needed it. And there he was done. The pipe cleaner arms and wire claws are fully 'poseable' so he can hang in a more bat like, but less visually interesting manner, with his wings tucked up... And then out pop the wings as he's about to fly off! His toe claws are bent the other way here and could fit into the crack on this beam! He hangs nicely from shelves, ledges etc, or from a thin wooden skewer as he was in some of the photos above! So, now I just have to cover the tall and thin design in a mini quilt, which is kind of shrieking giraffe at me. But I might leave that a little longer and see if anything else comes to mind. Sally.

Free quilt patterns by Monica Curry at Cut, Stitch and Piece Quilt Designs.

This PDF is of a wonky star block. Want to make your own Scrappy Wonky Star quilt? As a thank you, I'm sharing a block pattern to help you get you started.

Hello there Its the Wonky Houses Quilt A Long Start... I hope you're all ready to have loads of fun! Over the next 3 weeks (21 days) we will be putting this cute 36" (92 cm) artsie quilt together. The pattern is really easy and should be manageable even by someone with beginner skills. As you can see you can use up a whole lot of scraps and its going to look great. Ive divided the Houses into 3 rows which means one row a week. Not even a lot of hard work. This is our First Week plan. The pattern pieces you will need to find are from A - Z; AA - AP. This is our whole week, so it will be easy to grab the next section as you go. For Monday Ive sewn piece 1 with the trees. This is pieces A - J. Before I start, I want to talk about the joining of the pieces. The software breaks the pieces that won't fit on one page. Each piece has a corresponding number. Each also has a extra piece that will overlap where it needs to be joined. You can use sellotape or glue - as you like. Just wait for the glue to dry before you sew and if you use tape, remember you can't iron over the tape.... not a good idea. This is how I do mine... I find the two pieces with the corresponding numbers and on 1 of them, I will cut off the extra piece along the line where it says "glue edge". Now I take the one I cut and place it over the 'glue edge' piece and line up all lines. Then I take sellotape and stick it down and curl it around to the back as well. Just remember that line now going across the pattern piece is not a dividing line, so either remember that or take a pen and make a wiggly line through it and know that it means 'this is not a sewing line' Once your glue is dry you can now start sewing... Ive added the colour codes to the pieces but its not at all necessary that you follow everything stricktly. Its to give you an idea in the fabrics and how much you will need. The background also does not need to all be one colour, just as you like. This is our Day 1 piece. I laid out the pieces in front of me and grabbed my box of scrap pieces. Im going scrap crazy on this one. There are also areas where you can do a little fussy cutting if you'd like. I love how it turned out - super cute!! Pattern is available in my Craftsy Shop if you would like to make a few Wonky Houses along with all of us.... The pattern is super easy - so if you can even do an easy star, you can manage this. Sewing those Wierd Angles: Today I also want to show you all how I deal with some of the "wierd angles" that you will have to sew. Piece A16 was one of them I only had that piece of blue to use for that section and as it is there, it did not fit. So this is the way that I deal with these things and having a piece of fabric that is big enough but because of the wierd angle it won't work.... This can work for both a plain piece of fabric or even a patterned piece. You lie your pattern segment over the fabric making sure that it will fit on all sides. If it is plain then who cares which side it is on, but if it is a patterned fabric, then the pattern side needs to face down - towards the desk and then the segment placed onto it. Now take your ruler and place it on the line that you are going to sew on. It must be on the side that you are working with (on the side of A16) Now you hold your ruler with one hand and with the other you push up all the pieces behind it (my hand isnt holding the ruler because its holding the camera...) You're making a fold line across the A16 line. Once youre convinced its all straight, then fold it over, take the ruler away and finger press the fabric to create a line across that will be visible. Now open the fabric that you have added and leave the already sewn part. You should see the line you pressed into the fabric. You now remove the top sewn section, and fold the fabric along the line you pressed. Now bring back the folded piece with the paper and place it again along the folded line. Make sure to then see that the paper piece still fits the fabric. If its over then just pull it back up along the fold until it is back ontop of the fabric. Now open the paper pattern piece to lie flat again. Don't let it move off the fold line you created. You now need to hold the piece with your thumb and gather the pieces behind that you folded up. Not the piece that is extended - only the piece that was folded. You will then even notice that if it was a patterned piece, it will now have turned and face the correct way to sew..... Sew the piece as normal This way beats working out the wierd angles or even having to take a huge piece of fabric to cover the section. If you practice this technique a little, you will get so used to doing it, and wierd angles will be a thing of the past.... Promise!! you fold down the paper and trim as usual And Wha-La!! it fits perfectly... Now a quick press and then trim all the edges. I hope this helps! ************************** Tomorrow we will be doing our Bitty Block, so I'll be back on Wednesday to discuss our Wonky Houses QAL further. I hope you all enjoy sewing along with me. Have a Great Monday! Be sure to visit My Pattern Shop https://www.facebook.com/QuiltArtDesigns

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